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Concrete or Pattern Poetry

A type of poetry where the visual arrangement of text and space forms a meaningful shape or image.

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineCherry

    By Yi Li
    I love cherries.
    The fruit, juice, jam,
    blossoms, prints on a summer
    dress, in a black forest cake…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFemale Rain

    By Doug Gonzalez
    only I stood in the rain with wet skin. I could taste the dew though it had not yet found my lips. …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinePlan Wheel

    By Doug Gonzalez
    Can You Hope Remember Remobilize Reorganize Revitalize Rewrite Relearn Repair Return Can You Know…
  • Poem
    By Russell Atkins
    Oh didn’t it """   """    """
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          rain
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    Oh did
               """      """       n’t…
  • Poem
    By Aram Saroyan
                                                    all     all
                                            all     all        
  • Poem
    By Alison C. Rollins
    I
    see you,
    peeping Tom,
    beside yourself with
    rage at what I done did,
    hands gone idle from deprivation.
    I see you, Uncle, with your fingers at the
    trapdoor, to place crumbs of a biscuit at my mouth
    in the dark. Through a hole the size of a...
  • Poem
    By Alison C. Rollins
    I am
    a product
    of my time.
    Time is a body
    that resembles
    a sound without a scale.
    Forever foreclosed fortitude.
    In heaven, the dinner bell rings
    as elegy. The porch-light stars turn
    on their mothering moths. Betrayal
    takes at least two, and wherever two
    or more are gathered, I am...
  • Poem
    By Gabrielle Joy Lessans
                         a muted longing for      a
                 being of elsewhere without     a
                 boundary or    a
           body like  a
    ball to throw me around in    a
       pig skin of public parts
          of policies    zero
       privacies of every
         body  gets   a
       turn to frisk me of
    numbered bodies &
       trophied bodies &
         saturated bodies...
  • Article
    By Natalie Earnhart & The Editors
    Interventionist Poet and Performer of (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual
    1 A CA Conrad copy
  • Poem
    By Tishani Doshi
    I’ll keep this brief. I remember the shock of Mr. G’s tiger-striped trunks
    at the Madras Gymkhana Club. Nothing to conceal, everything to
    declare, like a Mills & Boon hero. Shiver of ball and sack, acres
    of  hairy scrub. We could not imagine...
  • Poem
    By Tishani Doshi
    This
    far north
    the sun rises
    and sinks in the
    same spot. Insects
    announce the apocalypse
    and fog moves through all
    the uncountable hours like a
    bright gray scar. The forest is
    awash in a dial of light more
    luminiferous than a Canaletto. I
    misuse the words  forest, woodland,
    jungle
    because I...
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